Roger Bate | 30 Jan 2012 | Africa Fighting Malaria
How vested interests and NGO politics are stalling much-needed international action against a deadly trade. The first international narcotics treaty, the Hague International Opium Convention was signed a century ago this week.
None | 12 Jan 2012 | Africa Fighting Malaria
AFM is not opening an office in Zambia and there are no job opportunities available. We did not post the advertisement and did not send an invitation letter requesting an ID fee. Please do NOT send any money to the Postnet Box address in Zambia. AFM does NOT have a Postnet Box in Zambia.
None | 13 Dec 2011 | Africa Fighting Malaria
The World Health Organization releases the 2011 World Malaria Report (WRM2011) today, which contains a great deal of interesting information and new data. Overall this is an excellent document that does not shy away from confronting the considerable challenges that malaria control faces.
Roger Bate | 12 Dec 2011 | Africa Fighting Malaria
In the past decade great strides have been made in the fight against
malaria, and many other diseases that proliferate in the tropics. US
Government annual spending on malaria has increase from just under $90m
in 2004 to the desired $691m requested by the President's Malaria
Initiative for next year.
None | 05 Dec 2011 | Africa Fighting Malaria
On December 5, 2011, AFM presented its poster on public health insecticides at The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's 60th annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
None | 05 Dec 2011 | Africa Fighting Malaria
On Monday, December 5th, AFM's Roger Bate testified before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights on the increasing threat of antimalarial drug resistance in Africa.
Jasson Urbach | 17 Nov 2011 | Health Policy Unit
SADC Ministers of Health met in Limpopo on Friday November 11th to commemorate SADC Malaria Day and raise the profile of the disease. The theme of this year's event was, "Be free of Malaria in the SADC region", which is now conceivable as several countries in the region move towards the goal of malaria elimination.
None | 17 Nov 2011 | Africa Fighting Malaria
The University of Pretoria officially launched the Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control (CSMC) on the 17th of November 2011. According to the Centre's brochure, the CSMC "seeks to reduce reliance on potentially harmful compounds currently used for malaria vector control."
Richard Tren & Donald Roberts | 01 Oct 2011 | Environmental Health Perspectives
Bouwman et al. (2011) characterized anti-DDT, centrist-DDT and pro-DDT positions, and stated that they "could find no current outright anti-DDT activities." This conclusion is false and misleading. Several activist groups currently promote an anti-DDT agenda, routinely hyping supposed human health and environmental harm from DDT and ignoring studies that find no association between DDT and such harm.
Richard Tren et al. | 08 Sep 2011 | Africa Fighting Malaria
Phase 1 of the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm) is a $225million initiative that was launched in 2010 in an effort to increase access to safe and effective artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) by dramatically lowering their price with a global subsidy. The AMFm also seeks to drive out oral artemisinin monotherapies as their continued use threatens the entire class of drugs due to drug resistance.